Hello, I am fairly new to PC Stitch Pro and I am trying to get some tips on what makes the best pattern. What do I set the settings to, stitches, size, cloth count etc ... and I found that when I tried to make a pattern of one of my dogs that is fawn colour (beige like) there were parts that gave the colour to use as violet! I found that odd! Any advice on how to set up a picture would be great! Thanks
The cloth count is really a non-issue for this kind of activity except for you to decide the final size of the project. It will look tiny, but shrink your image to the dimensions of your final stitching project. You should make 1 pixel = 1 stitch if at all possible.
You should also try to keep the number of colors fairly small. That will reduce the number of confetti stitches and reduce the number of odd colors.
Even in the best of cases, you will have to make some manual adjustments. The computer sees colors differently than the human eye and you may need to do some "blending" differently than it does. That is normal. Conversion is as much art as science.
As for the odd colors, reducing the number of colors may help because there are only so many colors of a single family. You can manually change all of one color to another color later if you feel something fits it better.
Every picture is different. I do not know exactly what settings you need to reduce the size to what you want. Your best bet is to try to gauge the percentage reduction needed. Look at the larger dimension - say the height. You want to work on 14 count and you want the final result to be about 8 X 10 inches. That means you don't want the height larger than 140. Figure out what number that is as a percentage of the current image. If the current image is 600 pixel, then you would want to reduce it by about 75% (you want your image to be 25% or less than the original size).
In this case, the percentage would be 23 because 23% of 600 is 138 (close enough)! Use that same 23% for both the width and the height to keep the proportions the same.
Best setting for Picture Patterns
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 15:57:53
